fertility

  1. cwb

    Eggs Not Fertile Even With 3 Roosters

    I have got 7 Barred Rock hens and 3 Barred Rock roosters. They are around 1 year old. I started hatching eggs from them September of last year and all were hatching with no fertility issues whatsoever. But just a couple weeks ago, all of a sudden, none of the eggs were fertile. I have tried...
  2. A

    Pilgrim x Toulouse breeding

    Hi there! I have a pilgrim gander and two pilgrim and two Toulouse geese. I’m hoping our pilgrim gander can breed them all, but I’m unsure of the size difference between our gander and the Toulouse. Will he still be able to successfully mate with them unassisted despite the size difference? Help...
    • Avae2710
    • Thread
    • breeding cross breeding cross breeds fertility gander goose pilgrim gander pilgrim geese toulouse geese toulouse x pilgrim
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Geese
  3. dublinducks

    Any Chance of Fertility?

    Recently we unexpectedly lost our favorite silkie rooster. He was absolutely perfect in type and my favorite color, splash. We affectionately called him Splish the splash silkie. When we lost Splish, we lost the ability to breed him. Our hens and roosters are kept separately from one another...
  4. G

    Champion birds

    I've been doing a little research and found out that eurasian doves lay 1-2 fertile eggs per clutch, one of my hens layed 3 eggs and the other layed 4 (about 2 weeks ago) I went to check on them a bit ago and saw that one of my hens layed 4 eggs again and the other hen is roosting so I can't see...
  5. I

    How long will it be before my ducks start laying mixed eggs?

    I have 5 female Rouens, 1 male Rouen, and 1 male Pekin duck. Several weeks ago, I separated 4 females with my male Rouen and left 1 female with my male Pekin because I wanted to hatch out some pure Rouen ducklings. Since I was waiting out the two week period to where they should all be pure...
  6. N

    Please help. Are my eggs even fertile? - diy candling day 6-7

    I have a broody silkie sitting on 8 of her own eggs. I had cracked one of her eggs and thought it was fertile as I saw a "bullseye". She has been sitting on the eggs since last monday night and it is now monday morning - so she has been on them for around 6-7 days. I candled 3 eggs (diy-...
  7. orangesplash

    Brahma eggs size and fertility concerns

    I have a pair of porcelain brahmas. earlier I had 2 females and 1 male but now I have just the rooster and the hen. Lately a few questions are coming to my mind. The eggs that they started laying were small. They have been laying eggs since a month by now. Still the size of the eggs is small. I...
  8. Laurel09

    Infertile Rooster Issues, Please help.

    Hello everyone. I started keeping backyard chicken about 6 months ago.I started with already grown chickens 1 rooster and 5 hens.Since the chickens were already a breeding age, three of my hens started laying after in the first 2 months. My rooster seemed to be doing a good job until my first...
  9. Englishable

    Sitting on dirty eggs?

    Our female goose decided to sit on her nest before we had a chance to really clean the coop/bedding and her nest is right under the chickens' roosts I told my husband to kick her off but he thought she'd be ok and left her. It's been almost a week and today when he checked on her, he said it...
    • Englishable
    • Thread
    • eggs fertility geese nest nesting
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Geese
  10. geniva10

    Fertilised eggs not developping

    I have some silkies ive been trying to hatch now for 2 months with no luck. The eggs are fertilised (bullseye) but yet do NOT develop in the incubator, I have 3 pullets and 2 roosters, all have been laying for a little over 4 months. I collect when the eggs are freshly laid and warm so its not...
  11. Slike

    Muscovies - fertility question

    I'm wondering if Muscovy hens will retain viable sperm from matings as do chickens, allowing them to keep producing fertile eggs for a period of time even in the absence of a mature male. Anyone's direct experience and observations to share would be greatly appreciated. If they do, I'd love to...
    • Slike
    • Thread
    • fertility muscovies muscovy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  12. Swastik Choudhari

    Who will be the daddy?

    I had this question from a long time...who fertilizes the egg if the cicken mate twice with different partners? So i see this often.. My young rooster mate with my chickens and as thier mating finishes the dominant rooster mount them again! The question arises who fertilizes the eggs the first...
  13. Stacyoung13

    Switching Roosters

    I have a Plymouth Rock in the run with 2 adult hens, 4-3 month hens and a 3 month roo, I have a Brahma that runs around the outside of the run. They all know each other through the fence of the run. Gator ( my Plymouth), is not fertile, I've tried half dozen eggs and nothing. Now if I decide to...
  14. GJudy

    Moving Broody Hens a couple miles to new home

    We are being given some broody hens because their behavior doesn't work in the current environment. We will have them in a separate living area with nest buckets and nice space. I have a couple questions to get off to a good beginning. Will moving them a couple miles likely mess with their...
  15. Adrien515

    Questions, Questions, and More Questions

    Hello there, I have some qesutions on incubating eggs. First off, fertility. I have one rooster for about 8 hens. How do I know when the eggs are fertilized? Secondly, I wish to incubate a mixture of duck, bantam, and standered sized chicken eggs. I have read little into what it takes to...
  16. Mel_

    In Need of Advice

    Hi guys! I have a bit of a dilemma and was wondering if anyone could offer some advice as to how to handle this situation. A while back I rescued a duckling from a parking lot and have raised it since. While I know that ducks do better with other ducks, I was reluctant to get another duck...
    • Mel_
    • Thread
    • advice duck eggs ducks fertility
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Ducks
  17. birdmandan

    Yes, the old male to female ratio

    Hi all. I know this topic has been bled to death, like a female kept with 5 males. I have kept quails in the past at 1:3 as suggested by quail literature. I now understand this is not a good system and 1:5 - 1:8 is much better. I am living in a tiny townhouse so am trying to keep a low...
    • birdmandan
    • Thread
    • breeding crowing fertility noise ratio
    • Replies: 49
    • Forum: Quail
  18. Diveks

    Rooster scared of a hen

    hello, I am new to backyard chickens and I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. I have different mix breeds of chickens in my flock so I know which one layed which egg and I am noticing that one of my hen, (she is at the top of the pecking order) whenever I checked for fertility in the...
  19. phoenixxflame

    Can a Duck tell if her eggs are fertile?

    I have eight eggs in my duck pen currently. When I went out to check if a female had gone broody this afternoon, I saw that she had thrown three of them off to the side. why is that? Some people are telling me that she knows they are not fertile, and some that there are too many eggs in her...
    • phoenixxflame
    • Thread
    • duck egg fertility help hen nest
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Ducks
  20. lastco

    Fertility/Egg Shape/Bielefelders

    I will apologize in advance for the long post! I've acquired hatching eggs locally to get a couple of new breeds, and I suspect one of these breeders has some fertility issues. I've hatched other eggs from them with no problem, so this seems to be specific to only one of the breeds they raise...
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